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 * Copyright (C) 2013 Oleg Anastassov <oleg.anastassov@gmail.com>
 *
 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
 * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
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package kz.kstu.loc.business.extract.strategy;

import kz.kstu.loc.entity.Item;

import java.io.File;
import java.util.List;

/**
 * Определяет стратегию извлечения текстовых
 * элементов из файлов различного типа.
 * <p/>
 * Date: 17.01.2013
 * Time: 13:10
 *
 * @author Oleg Anastassov
 */
public interface ExtractStrategy {

    /**
     * Извлекает текстовые элементы из файла-источника.
     *
     * @param file файл-источник
     * @return список извлеченых элементов
     */
    List<Item> extract(File file);

}
